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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Old Haunted Ipoh Cinema (怡宝鬼戏院)

There was once a cinema situated in Ipoh town centre and it
is somewhere near a street where many funeral parlours situated. Old Ipoh folks
would know what part of Ipoh town I meant.

This story happened to a classmate of mine somewhere in the
mid 90’s but pardon me that I couldn’t recall what was the name of the cinema
at this moment.

As the story goes, Wong visited the said cinema to watch a
late afternoon movie during one weekend in Lunar 7th month. The
movie started at about 4pm and Wong was late and as he entered the theatre, he
found that it was a full house! So he squeezed amongst the spectators to his
seat and joined the crowd to enjoy the show.

Somewhere towards the end of the movie, Wong felt that he
needed to answer the call of nature; so he immediately raised and hurried
towards the toilet.

As he barged into the toilet, he saw an old lady was blocking
his way. The old lady was a little queer because she used a fan to cover her
mouth. Before Wong could pardon himself, the old lady spoke:

“Excuse me young man. Can you please tell me what time is it
now?”

Wong did think it was odd to see an old lady in a male
toilet, but he thought the lady was a cleaner; so without hesitations Wong look
at his watch and read out:

“Oh, it is 5:30pm aunty!”

At this point the old lady removed her fan and smiled at
Wong… and as Wong recalled it that the old lady’s lower jaw has only skeleton!

What else? Wong shouted hysterically and quickly ran towards
the audience’s seat. To his second surprised, the audience seats were almost
empty and only a few spectators seated far and apart!

Now Wong really has no intention to finish the movie and he
decided to get away from the cinema. Though it only took a few minutes to exit
the theatre, Wong felt as if it was taking ages.

Had Wong’s ordeal over?

Well…

As Wong quicken his pace to get his car that was parked near
a funeral parlour. He noticed that there was a dead ceremony taking place and
Wong’s final shock of the day was that… the picture of the lady hanging in the
middle of the funeral parlour looked just the same with the old lady in the
cinema toilet!